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Find your water

If you dont already have a known water supply, then your first job will be to find it. Dowsing and geological surveys provide the most accurate means to do this.. Read more...

Pump it up

Once you have found your water supply, the next task is to bring it to the surface, establish your yield, and have it tested to establish its chemistry.
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Filter it

When you have the results of your composition test, you will need to think about filtration. The type you may need depands on your water content.
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FAQs > Wells


  Q What is a Well?
   
A well is a chamber dug by hand , in some cases very deep and often on the same sites as ancient wells. Wells are very labor intensive to build, and in times of old they were fiercely guarded. A well was not just a supply of water to drink, Â but provided large communities with their entire water needs.
Many wells that we see today are Roman in origin and have simply been repaired and altered at or near the surface over the centuries.
Most wells are about the same diameter, and this is no coincidence either. Cartwheels were used to keep the well diameter more or less even as the men who dug them went deeper and deeper. There are some ancient wells which exceed 100 meters in depth - and all dug by hand!
  Q I've discovered a well on my property. Can I use it?
   
Absolutely. Wells often produce very high volumes of water as they are usually very ancient . Ancient wells provided villages and communities with their water needs. If your well has not been used for a long time, it will need to be pumped out, and may benefit from cleaning. and then flow tested. Not only will your well produce water, but eh rates of flow will increase.
  Q I've have a well on my property which has been backfilled. Can i clean it out?
   
Perhaps. If the well is a narrow diameter then it is probably very shallow as a man wouldn't be able dig out a narrow well as he wouldn't physically be able to climb down it. Removing debris from a shallow well then is feasible if it is simply loose debris.
If the well is of usual diameter it is probably much deeper. The issue then is the time and cost of clearing it out with no assurance the well will yield water. Emptying debris from wells can be a costly lucky dip. If you are determined to check out all possibilities of getting water from a backfilled well, we would certainly recommend that the well be dowsed again before embarking on any such venture.
  Q Can I clean my well to improve water quality and increase yield?
   
Yes. Wells which have not been used for a long time will contain stagnant water and other growth material. This can have two effects. One, the water biological content will be high, and because of this acidic too. Both of these charecters need to be removed or improved. Two, cleaning the well with lime will kill off the excess bacteria, restabalise the pH levels and improve the water flow into the well. As lime destroys bacteria and growth natural aquifer channels into the well will flow more freely, resulting in a higher yield.
Of course the deeper the well, the more diffiicult it is to have an effect at greater depths, but adding lime and aggressively pumping it out over a period of sessions will have a major effect.

If you choose to scrub or flush your well out with lime, you will need to allow it to fill, and then re-flush several times afterwards to ensure that the lime has been effectively removed.
We would recommend a water analysis re-test to confirm the lime levels have dropped to low levels.
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